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Early 4870 Avail

Are the 4870 1gb version supposed to release alongside the 512mb version?
 
F that. Newegg had it for $309 for a short while.

Grim: Really, really doubt it. 4870 supplies are constrained by the supply of GDDR5, not the GPU so manufacturers would most likely rather sell 2 512MB cards than 1 1024MB card. I haven't seen a single supplier announce a 1GB version for 4870.
 
Grimspoon said:
Are the 4870 1gb version supposed to release alongside the 512mb version?
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They'll be out later (I'd put my money on July). 512 MB seems to be more than enough for this card, though. Who knows, doubling the RAM on a HD 4870 might be like doubling the RAM on a 8800 GT (aka useless for most practical applications).
 
RikkAndrsn said:
They'll be out later (I'd put my money on July). 512 MB seems to be more than enough for this card, though. Who knows, doubling the RAM on a HD 4870 might be like doubling the RAM on a 8800 GT (aka useless for most practical applications).
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The 4870 gets quite close to the 280 in quite some games in 16/1920, but at 2560 lack of video RAM tapers its competitiveness.
 
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